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Handling Snakes - 8/16/2008 11:45:01 AM
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humbleinspirit
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Do you like snakes? If so, do you have them as pets? Do you handle them at all or do they give you the creeps instead?
In the past, I used to think that it was quite eerie or unusual for a woman to like and handle snakes, but not anymore though. I am just wondering if you are a snake handler at all? 
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RE: Handling Snakes - 8/16/2008 12:45:36 PM
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They are loathesome to me. I understand that some people like them a lot, but I am not one of them.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 8/16/2008 12:48:47 PM
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I'll respectfully watch a wild snake from a distance, although I have picked up small ones when it was cool outside and the snake was moving slowly.
Pet snakes, I've held those and enjoyed it. Would I own a snake as a pet? Nah, not my idea of fun.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 8/17/2008 5:19:42 AM
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Ewww snakes. Don't want to have to deal with them unnecessarily.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 8/17/2008 10:14:27 PM
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It's funny, I was at the zoo with my family and walked past some snake exibits. There was a huge anaconda in one closed in space, and even though the glass was 6+ inches thick, I still found myself walking as close as I could to the opposite wall. *wuss*
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RE: Handling Snakes - 8/17/2008 10:27:44 PM
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I am very afraid of snakes as well.My brother used to have a pet snake and man was it creepy.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 8/18/2008 1:37:08 AM
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I hate snakes. You have no clue.
I used to have nightmares about them (seriously).
I'd wake up and start crying for my parents, haha.
I was--and still am--petrified of snakes.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 8/18/2008 10:57:32 AM
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miasma
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Do you like snakes?
Not particularly.
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Do you handle them at all or do they give you the creeps instead?
I do what I have to do. I certainly don't believe in "snake handling."
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RE: Handling Snakes - 8/18/2008 6:52:02 PM
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42servehymn
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I don't know that I would go so far as to say I "like" them but I am somewhat fascinated by them. Several years ago I worked at an elementary school and did a study unit on snakes. At the end of the unit I had a reptile man come out and bring several of his critters along. I draped a boa constrictor over my neck and had my picture taken. I wa surprised at how cool it felt. I guess I am used to mammals. Also my sons have captured many snakes over the years and kept them in tanks in the house. We actually had garter snake babies on two occasions. The first one had 13 babies and the last one had about 30 or so. We have also had a bull snakeand a couple of racers (my least favorite).
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RE: Handling Snakes - 8/18/2008 7:18:07 PM
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ORIGINAL: beachcooky
I hate snakes. You have no clue.
I used to have nightmares about them (seriously).
I'd wake up and start crying for my parents, haha.
I was--and still am--petrified of snakes.
Me too. My worst nightmares still include either snakes or loosing my teeth (I had some traumatic experiences with a dentist).
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RE: Handling Snakes - 8/19/2008 12:03:18 AM
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Me too. My worst nightmares still include either snakes or loosing my teeth (I had some traumatic experiences with a dentist).
Oh my gosh! Just a few nights ago, I dreamt I lost all my teeth. It was creepy. I used to be really scared of doctors when I was growing up. Cos I got tubes put in my ears at age 2...so it's like, "doctors are scary!" haha.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 8/19/2008 1:01:40 PM
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any of you have any insight as to why you are afraid of snakes? I really don't understand that at all.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 8/20/2008 12:03:52 AM
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Spiders on the other hand should all die.
Whole-heartedly agreed.
While I don't believe in snake handling, I love snakes. I am nervous about encountering a poisonous one, though. I don't have a snake as a pet (but I would like to). The big things stopping me are 1) cost and 2) I love mice.. so I would probly cry whenever I fed the snake... LOL.
I have caught snakes in the wild once or twice with some friends and cousins. They're cute! Also have held friends' pet snakes before.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 8/21/2008 7:27:30 PM
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Well I certainly wouldnt call myself a snack handler...do I like them no. Am I affraid to go out in the yard and chop its head off with a hoe if needed to be no. I would much rather deal with a snake than any four legged rodent running through the house. That gives me nightmares to even think about, and I would be hanging from the chandeler until someone came over to trap it :)
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RE: Handling Snakes - 8/21/2008 8:11:10 PM
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42servehymn
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Anamchara halleluia and amen! When my boys first started capturing snakes we were living in a house that was prone to mice. I had visions of letting the snakes loose in the cupboards. I never actually did it though. We didn't usually keep our snakes long term. My husband and sons usually go out on Fathers Day and then release any critters by Labor Day at the latest. They enjoyed observing them and watching them shed their skins and of course holding them.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 8/21/2008 9:46:15 PM
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Catalpa
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I hate snakes. Not due to anything in my experience, I think it's an instictive revulsion that goes all the way back to Eve. They're just too creepy-crawly nasty.
Spiders rank right up there, too.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 8/22/2008 7:19:52 PM
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When I was a little girl, a snake handler came to class with a huge boa constrictor. We could touch the snake if we wanted to. They were trying to teach us how to recognize dangerous from safe snakes. There was some rhyme about snake colors - red and yellow kills a fellow, if it is black stay way back, if it is brown stick around or something like that. I lived in Texas at the time. Come to think of it ... I think this could have only happened in Texas. Anyway, being the type of kid I was, I just had to touch it - so I did. Several times. It was cold and dry - not unpleasant at all.
Well, I no longer live in Texas, and my sissy quotient is now considerably higher. A couple of months ago I walked down a path near my house and noticed a menacing black slithering snake with little beady eyes. It was inching towards me (Eeeek!!!) Well, needless to say, I have not walked down that path since. On some level, I think that if I go back, there is a fair chance that the snake might be waiting for me -- along with a couple of his killing buddies.
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